Example sentences of "[vb infin] before [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Select the ones you can achieve before graduating to the more strenuous ones .
2 Politicians should hesitate before reaching for the handy ‘ blame television ’ solution .
3 In other words , they have an enveloping scheme under which there has to be a basic threshold over which people must pass before getting into the realms of simply accepting the lowest possible tender .
4 They also learn the position of the wetlands that provide them with crucial staging posts where they can feed and rest before starting on the next part of their journey .
5 But there is a limit to how much further they can go before passing on the additional costs created by the devaluation last September , and inflation is likely to edge higher after next month .
6 Use the forceful approach to get attention early on , and then move to this one to negotiate and to find out what rewards and pressures you can offer before returning to the forceful approach .
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